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CENS is accepting applications for the CENS High School Scholars Program! Deadline April 21, 2008

 

"We envision a world where researchers, students, industry and goverment routinely use distributed sensor and actuator networks to understand and control both natural and artificial systems."

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CENS, a NSF Science & Technology Center, is developing Embedded Networked Sensing Systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and social applications. Like the Internet, these large-scale, distributed, systems, composed of smart sensors and actuators embedded in the physical world, will eventually infuse the entire world, but at a physical level instead of virtual. Read more:

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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

 

Upcoming Events

CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Lama Nachman, Intel
CENS Intel Scholars Event: Technical Seminar and Poster Symposium
May 16, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: CENS Main Conference Room and Courtyard (BH 3551)
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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Aman Kansal
  Community Sensing

  May 9, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Ethics Seminar

  May 30, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

• CS4HS: Explorations in Computer Science for High School Teachers

  July 24 - 26, 2008

  Location: UCLA Boelter Hall

  Description: Workshop on teaching computer science principles to students in a fun and relevant way. Read More

Recent Events

• Alberto Pepe, UCLA and Marko Rodriguez, LANL
  Mining community structures in sensor network research collaboration

  May 2, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CANCELLED - CENS Technical Seminar Series: Professor Philip Levis
  TBA

  April 25, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 Boelter Hall

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: James A. Kelly
  The Smart Grid Vision

  April 18, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• Martin H. Krieger
  Urban Tomography

  April 11, 2008, 1:00 PM -- April 8, 2008, 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Ben Greenstein, Intel Corporation
  Improving Wireless Privacy with an Identifier-Free Link Layer Protocol

  April 4, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Talmur Hassan, CENS
  Tropical Ecology Assessment and Management

  March 7, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 Boelter Hall, UCLA

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• Scientific American - Rainforest Climate Change Sensor Station Goes Wi-Fi

  24-Mar-08

  UCLA researchers are setting up a wireless data collection, dissemination and analysis system in Costa Rica's La Selva rainforest Read More

• CENS News - Allen Husker: Outstanding Student Paper Award

  13-Mar-08

  CENS student Allen Husker receives an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation: Tomography of the subducting Cocos plate in central Mexico: Images of a truncated slab.

• NSF - At the NSF FY 2009 Budget Open House

  07-Feb-08

  CENS Director Deborah Estrin and graduate student Teresa Ko presented CENS research at the NSF FY 2009 Budget Open House. Read More

• MIT Press - Scholarship in the Digital Age - Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

  12-Dec-07

  CENS Faculty Christine Borgman has authored a new book in which she "explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century." Read More

• UC News - When the cows come home

  11-Dec-07

  CENS Faculty Tom Harmon is leading research using wireless sensors to measure the effects that manure produced by California's dairy industry has on our state's groundwater supply. Read More

• New Scientist - Rattling elevators reveal a building's health

  28-Nov-07

  Just running an elevator up and down is enough to determine the "structural health" of a building, a new study reveals. Read More

• CENS faculty receives PECASE award

  15-Nov-07

  CENS Faculty Eddie Kohler (Computer Science) has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), one of 20 such awards made by the National Science Foundation. Read More

• CENS student researchers earn Edward K. Rice awards

  14-Nov-07

  CENS graduate student researcher Amarjeet Singh has been awarded the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Master of Science Student Award, while undergraduate researcher Andre Encarnacao received the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award. Both awards were announced at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science 2007 Awards Dinner. Congratulations to both students on these prestigious awards. For the full list of student awards, please visit the 2007 Awards Dinner page: Read More

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